
Access Asia
Hosted by Yuka Royer · FRANCE 24 English
5.0from 1 ratings
- 137
- Episodes
- 116
- Transcribed
- 1
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About Access Asia
Exclusive reports, features and analysis of political and social events from across the Asian continent. Friday at 3:45pm Paris time.
- Publisher
- FRANCE 24 English
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Sept 2023
- Latest episode
- 9 Oct 2026
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116 of 137 episodes have a transcript.

9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
India protests grow over Election Commission mistrust

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India protests grow over Election Commission mistrust
Published 9 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The investigation in the Indian Express states that the revision of voter lists was a point of concerns for two of the three election commissioners. Who benefits from this revision? There are different theories. There's a theory that the election commission or the chief election commissioner was doing the bidding of the ruling party, which is the BJP, and removing from the list people who may have not voted for the BJP. There's no evidence really to back that up so far. The evidence that we do have, or the evidence that Indian Express has said it has, is documents that according to the Indian Express prove that two out of three election commissioners had objections to various parts of the process, that they raised questions during the parts of the process that were not answered, that their objections were ignored, that they were actually process decisions that were made that they weren't even involved in. […]
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- Faye D'Souza
- Peter O'Brien
- Arun Bhakta Shrestha
- Sports Editor
- Kazuhiko Maita
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Yuka Royer host the show. Published by FRANCE 24 English.
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